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BEIJING - President Barack Obama appears to be a regular customer of a Chinese Internet cafe, reports said, after the manager forged an identity...

NEW YORK - The United States on Tuesday unveiled the world's "largest" money laundering probe targeting the digital currency operator Liberty Reserve, striking a...

NEW YORK - A member of a loosely organized group of hackers accused of breaching computer networks of the FBI and a global intelligence...

JERUSALEM - An organization calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" has launched a cyber attack against the water distribution system of Haifa, Israel's third...

RIYADH - Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported....

WASHINGTON - China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert...

WASHINGTON - The United States should consider curbs on Chinese investment or even offensive operations against hackers to address the growing toll from intellectual...

WASHINGTON - A high-powered commission said Wednesday that intellectual property theft was costing the United States the equivalent of all its exports to Asia...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by...

JOHANNESBURG - Hackers cracked into the website of South Africa's police and downloaded information that could leave whistleblowers vulnerable, police and a government data...

TEHRAN - Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired...

TOKYO - Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to...

WASHINGTON - US authorities seized the accounts of a Bitcoin digital currency exchange operator, claiming it was functioning as an "unlicensed money service business,"...

RIYADH - Several government Internet sites have come under "coordinated and simultaneous" cyber attack, an information security spokesman in the oil-rich kingdom reported on...

ROME - Italian police on Friday arrested four alleged hackers believed to belong to the activist group Anonymous for attacking websites, including those of...

LONDON - The website of Britain's Financial Times appeared to have been hacked on Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army, a mysterious group seemingly...

LONDON - Four members of the LulzSec international hacking group were sentenced to prison terms in Britain on Thursday for masterminding cyber attacks on...

NEW YORK - The New Yorker magazine on Wednesday unveiled a new online system for anonymous whistleblower tips, based on technology developed by the...

MOSCOW - Russia on Tuesday said it had detained an alleged American CIA agent working undercover at the US embassy who was discovered with...

WASHINGTON - Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3D printable handgun found a safe harbor Friday at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a...